The Candy Machine

How Cocaine Took Over the World

Tom Feiling

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Penguin
16 September 2009

History; Drug & substance abuse: social aspects; Drugs trade & trafficking

The story of cocaine as it's never been told before

Cocaine is big business and getting bigger. Governments spend millions on an unwinnable war against it, yet it's now the drug of choice in the West. How did the cocaine economy get so huge? Who keeps it running behind the scenes?

In The Candy Machine Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and Tijuana to London and New York. He meets Medillin hitmen, US kingpins, Brazilian traffickers, and talks to soldiers and narcotics officers who fight the gangs and cartels. He traces cocaine's progress from legal 'pick-me-up' to luxury product to global commodity, looks at legalization programmes in countries such as Switzerland, and shows how America's anti-drugs crusade is actually increasing demand.

Cutting through the myths about the white market, this is the story of cocaine as it's never been told before.

By: Tom Feiling
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 270g
ISBN: 9780141034461
ISBN 10: 0141034467
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 16 September 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tom Feiling is an award-winning documentary film-maker. He spent a year living and working in Colombia before making Resistencia: Hip-Hop in Colombia, which won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, and was broadcast in four countries. In 2003 he became Campaigns Director for the TUC's Justice for Colombia campaign, which organizes for human rights in Colombia. This is his first book.

Reviews for The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over the World

The Candy Machine is highly addictive Metro It is hard to decide if Tom Feiling's future lies as a QC or the new Paul Theroux. He has written a vivid, argumentative, arresting book The Sunday Telegraph I've read a few documentary accounts of the rise of cocaine, and this might be the best of them. It's clear, sharp and solid. Very well told Evening Standard An important study of the cultivation, usage and suppression of cocaine FT A cracking read ... Strong stuff, beautifully argued Literary Review